"Bodily Injury" means bodily injury to a person and sickness, disease or death which results from it.
"Funeral Expenses" means reasonable, customary and necessary expenses incurred within two years of the accident for professional funeral services. These expenses include the cost of a burial plot for one person.
"Injured Person" is as defined in 21 Del.C. § 2118(a)(2) a.5.
"Innocent Third Parties" means claimants who at the time of the event leading to the claim (1) were not in violation of any Rules of the Road as promulgated under Title 21, Delaware Code and (2) whose activities did not contribute in any way to the accident. This presumption may be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence.
"Loss of Earnings" means loss of salary or its equivalent, net of taxes which were lost by reason of inability to work. This covers loss of wages, salary or lost earnings of a self-employed person. Payment of lost earnings is to be at the time they are actually lost.
"Loss of Use" means expenses necessarily and actually incurred by the named insured as a result of damage to the insured motor vehicle.
"Medical Expenses" means reasonable charges for necessary medical, hospital, dental, surgical, x-ray, ambulance, professional nursing services and prosthetic devices.
"Motor Vehicle" means a land motor vehicle, including a trailer or semi-trailer as used therewith, required to be registered, licensed and required to carry insurance under the Financial Responsibility Laws.
"Nonstandard" means an insured policyholder who is unable to procure insurance through the standard market and whose premium charge is in excess of the premium charged by the Delaware Automobile Insurance Plan ("DAIP") for similar (though not identical) coverage.
"Substitute Service Expenses" means reasonable and necessary extra-incurred expense for personal services which would have been performed by the injured person had he or she not been injured.
"Wilmington Auto Accident Reparations Arbitration Committee or Its Successors" as described at 21 Del.C. § 2118(g)(3) is deemed to include the insurance industry forums including the nationwide intercompany arbitration agreement, special arbitration agreement forum, automobile accident reparations arbitration agreement.
18 Del. Admin. Code § 603-4.0
26 DE Reg. 398 (11/1/2022) (Final)